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Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (25 Nov 2020)

Pauline O'Reilly: ...the political will to ban an industry that the Green Party would like to see the end of. We have very different views on horse racing, and I will let my party colleague speak about that. I fundamentally do not understand the argument that one would support an industry and support funding to an industry but not support workers in the time of Covid. That is the first thing I will say. I...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (24 Nov 2020) See 1 other result from this answer

Charlie McConalogue: The Department's TB wildlife programme was capturing badgers using stopped restraints in the locality at that time. The Department's use of stopped restraints is in compliance with the Wildlife Act specifications and is licensed by the National Parks and Wildlife. At the site mentioned, the restraints were all placed on private agricultural land, which, at that time, were stubble fields,...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...have nothing to do and the planters will have no ground to plant on. What is going on is the height of blackguarding. People are appealing from as far away as 200 miles, with no connection at all to forestry or to the felling licence they are appealing against. What happened in the first place is that farmers and Coillte planted marginal lands and got grants to do so from the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Incidence (16 Sep 2020)

Charlie McConalogue: ...are multifactorial and often relate to local factors. The expansion of the dairy herd since 2015 has played a role in this, since dairy herds, larger herds, and herds which introduce more cattle, are all more at risk of bTB breakdowns. 52% of all bTB reactors in 2019 were in dairy herds, while there were approximately 2.8 million farm-to-farm cattle movements last year. These trends...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (10 Jun 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...and provide an amenity for communities. I have written to Coillte regarding Oldcourt woods at Garryduff in Rochestown. It is an area of considerable biodiversity in spite of its relatively small size. It is home to a variety of squirrels, including the increasingly rare red squirrel, as well as jays, rabbits, foxes and, possibly, badgers. The proposal to clear-fell here is a huge...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (27 May 2020)

Michael Creed: In February 2018, I announced that vaccination of badgers against tuberculosis (TB) had commenced as an integral part of the bovine TB eradication programme. Vaccination would commence in areas where successful field trials had already taken place with a view to gradually rolling it out to other parts of the country over time. As I stated then, my view is that this marks a major step...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Protection (20 May 2020)

Josepha Madigan: Under the Wildlife Acts and under the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 all bird species are protected and animals such as badgers, deer, otters, bats and hares are also protected.  Officials of the National Parks and Wildlife Service of my Department monitor compliance with the Wildlife Acts and the European Community (Birds and Natural Habitats)...

Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only reason this is being discussed is that climate activists, Deputy Bríd Smith and People Before Profit badgered the Minister and forced the debate. Now that we have forced the debate on the Minister, he should refrain from putting forward this terminal for liquid natural gas from fracked sources as a priority project to the European Commission tomorrow. He has no democratic...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Animal Diseases (1 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...official also said the disease can be spread by nets and boxes. He said he knew this from his colleagues in England. If so, why did he not advise the Irish Coursing Club last year to disinfect all nets and boxes? Either he was not asked to say that a vaccine is available to stop this disease, or he avoided the question. If this disease is so dangerous to the native Irish hare and can be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (1 Oct 2019) See 10 other results from this debate

...continue to be the key policy in the enhanced TB programme. The existing wildlife control programme must be appropriately resourced to ensure timely and effective captures take place surrounding all TB outbreaks where wildlife is associated with the breakdown. The programme must be extended to reduce densities of wildlife proactively, including deer, in advance of major infrastructural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Andrew Doyle: ...broadleaves. The plantations will also be subject to certain rules on setbacks from roads, houses, rivers and streams that were not part of the planting rules that pertained when they were planted all those years ago. The area of cover will be considered the same in the accounting, even though the footprint will be smaller. However, those rules are in place for good reasons. There is...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (19 Jun 2019)

Lynn Ruane: ...on to consideration of public petitions. The committee will now make formal decisions on six petitions. Petition P00015/19 from Ms Mmoley Taylor would like to see Irish citizenship offered to all British spouses of Irish nationals who are currently resident in Ireland and have been married for over five years. This petition cites the uncertainty of Brexit and potential hardships for...

Loss of Biodiversity and Extinction of Species: Statements (29 May 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to have the opportunity to talk about this issue. Anything renewable or environmentally friendly will always be good but it must be practical for the people affected. If not, the country will be designated with no place left for people. Farmers must be compensated for land that is designated as a wild habitat. Many farmers have no problem with that if they are properly...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (2 Apr 2019)

Michael Creed: ...of Michael Cronin and the issues it is considering are raising the pulse rate a little bit. I have deliberately refrained from commenting on any of those issues because it is respectful to the group to allow it to bring forward its proposals. Representatives of the farming industry are also involved in it. The challenge is to step outside our comfort zone and embrace new positions on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (26 Mar 2019)

Michael Creed: ...of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The submission provided by Professor More to the Committee highlighted that prior to the development of a vaccine for badgers, eradication of bovine TB in Ireland was not possible with the policy tools available. However, following the successful scientific trialling of badger vaccination, research from UCD...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (26 Mar 2019)

Michael Creed: ...10,785 farmers experienced a TB restriction in 2000. This represents a 65% decrease in the number of herds restricted in 2000 highlighting the significant success of the TB Programme. Specifically in relation to compensation, the Irish TB Programme provides supports in excess of other jurisdictions. Farmers receive the open market value for any bovine diagnosed as a reactor (On Farm...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tuberculosis Eradication Programme (13 Mar 2019)

Michael Creed: From January 2018, the formal badger Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination programme commenced in the areas which formed part of the field trials, i.e. in parts of counties Monaghan, Longford, Galway, Tipperary, Waterford, Kilkenny, Cork and in all of Louth. Badgers in a vaccination area are captured, vaccinated and released instead of being captured and culled. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (26 Feb 2019) See 4 other results from this debate

...been on two questions as to what the constraints to eradication are and what the practical solutions are to address those constraints. We focus on the three areas of cattle, wildlife and the overall programme, including seeking to glean lessons from international experience. On page 3 of the statement provided, there is a graph that compares the situation in Ireland with the four...

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...to animal welfare, some of them without any State funding and relying on their own resources and fundraising. They are picking up the pieces from the mistreatment, abuse and cruelty that has been allowed to continue. I am looking at the Bill in the context of our other animal welfare legislation, which we know has not seen an end to cruelty. We also know the sanctions have not really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ireland's TB Eradication Programme: Discussion (11 Dec 2018) See 8 other results from this debate

...by efforts to reduce TB in the human population. Many of us will be aware from family members that at that time TB was a scourge in the human population. It was commonly known as consumption, or galloping consumption. It was estimated that 12,000 people a year died from TB in Ireland in the 1900s. It remained a serious and significant disease of people right through the 1920s, 1930s...